Biography
Ryan Schebek (he/him) - Founder, RCC
Ryan is a Registered Clinical Counsellor with the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors (BCACC) and a Certified Adlerian Counsellor. Ryan completed his Master of Counselling Psychology at Adler University. Before opening a private practice, he worked in various mental health support settings. This included addiction treatment centres and community mental health clinics.
In addition to his private practice, Ryan also teaches counselling. Designing and delivering courses for aspiring counsellors is rewarding and enriching for his practice.
Ryan recognizes that systemic oppression profoundly influences mental health and access to care. This understanding shapes his clinical approach and informed the creation of Care Beyond Capital, a social justice–focused practicum dedicated to fostering supportive, anti-oppressive spaces for healing. Ryan is committed to using his own privilege in meaningful allyship with communities impacted by oppression. His practice is grounded in compassion, social justice, and the belief that all people deserve equitable, affirming care.
Ryan also advocates for other modalities for healing outside of counselling. His interests include yoga, mindfulness and psychedelics as an adjunct to traditional psychotherapy. He is also trained in Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) and Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP). Stemming from his work with Ketamine, Ryan offers psychedelic integration sessions to help others explore their own experience with altered states of consciousness.
When Ryan is not doing therapy, you might catch him watching a movie at the Vancouver Cinematheque, playing board games with friends, doing yoga, reading or playing video games.
Grant Regier (he/him) - Student Intern
Grant is a counsellor in training, currently completing his Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology at Adler University. In his practice, Grant helps individuals heal and explore parts of themselves that are disconnected, stressed, and internally conflicted through the Internal Family Systems (IFS) approach. Additionally, he employs facets of other modalities, such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), in understanding and working with parts. In his practice, he undergoes continuous training, integrates client feedback, and continues to develop his own personal growth to refine his approach. As part of his training, he is particularly interested in psychological research, trauma, counselling theories, and skills.
Outside of the counselling environment, Grant is interested in other ways of healing. These include mindfulness, breathing exercises, and philosophy as a guide for being present and living authentically.
When Grant is not in class or doing therapy, he enjoys video games, meditation, cold immersion, martial arts, and going for ruck marches (i.e., taking walks with a weighted backpack) as they greatly improve my capacity for self-awareness.
My top 5 video games are: Sons of the Forest, Kingdom Come Deliverance, Split Fiction, It Takes Two, and any of the Fallout games. Martial arts that I have enjoyed are: Taekwondo, Aikido, Judo, Combatives and Boxing
Sara Taylor (she/they) - Student Intern
Sara (she/ they) is a counsellor in training currently completing her Master’s of Counselling at Adler University in Vancouver. Originally from Vancouver Island, she has called Vancouver home for the past ten years. Sara offers a warm, collaborative space where clients are invited to explore and heal at their own pace.
Her approach is grounded in existential therapy, with a focus on meaning-making and understanding how lived experiences shape our ways of being. Sara also draws from Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), feminist therapy, mindfulness, trauma-informed practice, and liberation psychology. An intersectional feminist and neurodiversity-affirming stance is integral to her approach. This perspective invites a critical stance toward dominant norms around behaviour, identity, and communication, recognizing these as culturally and contextually mediated rather than universal. Sara has a special interest in supporting neurodivergent, disabled, and 2SLGBTQIA+ clients, people navigating trauma, and people exploring their relationships to religion and spirituality.
In session, she pays close attention to what’s happening in the moment, striving to help clients notice and make sense of their experiences as they arise. Her work emphasizes consent, safety, pacing, grounding, and creative problem-solving. Striving to be responsive and accountable to the diverse communities served by her practice, she works collaboratively with clients at every stage of the therapeutic process and tailors her method to the individual. She is a white, queer, neurodivergent person of European descent. Outside of counselling, Sara enjoys reading, writing, creating and appreciating art, and hanging out with her cat.
Sandy Valenzuela (she/her) - Student Intern
Is this all there is? Will I always feel this way? These are questions many of the people I work with have asked themselves for a very long time before reaching out. If this is where you are finding yourself in your life right now, I offer you a perspective from one of my favourite poets, Andrea Gibson: "I know most people try hard to do good and find out too late they should have tried softer.” It is not too late. Together, we can tend to the parts of you that yearn for softness and tenderness, and get curious about that exhausting, underlying drive to always "be good" or have it all together. In our work, we aren't looking for a quick clinical "fix" or trying to fit you into a rigid box. Instead, we aim to co-create a safe, down-to-earth space where you don't have to perform. We will welcome the very normal rage and grief that comes from trying to meet impossible expectations, and nurture the parts of you that have long yearned for the safety to be seen exactly as you are.
My Practice Focuses
While I welcome a diverse range of human experiences, my practice is specifically shaped around supporting individuals navigating:
2SLGBTQIA+ & Neuroaffirming Identity: A space deeply dedicated to queer belonging, identity exploration, and honouring the unique ways your specific mind and nervous system process the world.
Sexual Abuse & Trauma Recovery: A gentle, collaborative environment to process childhood or adult sexual trauma at a pace that feels entirely safe for you.
Navigating Mother Wounds: Unpacking complicated maternal relationships, early family dynamics, and the heavy burden of carrying unmet family expectations.
Relational Support & Systemic Burnout: Exploring how you relate to yourself and others, while learning how to reclaim your energy from cultural, societal, and systemic pressures.
What It Is Like to Work Together
Therapy with me is a relational partnership. I look at you as the expert on your own life, and look at myself as a supportive companion walking alongside you. We will look closely at how you connect with the world around you and how external societal pressures might be wearing you down.
You don't need to have the "right" words to begin. You just need to show up as you are. If you are ready to explore what it means to move through the world a little softer, I invite you to reach out for a consultation.
Bita Kiasarai (she/her) Pre-Registered Counsellor
Bita is a Pre-Registered Counsellor with a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology. She works with adults and couples navigating childhood trauma, early emotional neglect, relational challenges, people-pleasing, shame, guilt, anxiety, and boundary work.
Bita understands that sometimes we arrive at a place in life where something within us no longer feels at ease. You may not know exactly how to name what hurts, but you may feel that something inside is asking to be voiced. In therapy, Bita offers a space to slow down and reconnect with the light within you that may have been dimmed, but never extinguished.
Through her own personal therapy, Bita came to understand the importance of gently naming, feeling, and attending to the roots of her own trauma and pain. She holds deep respect for the courage it takes to turn toward what hurts and begin exploring the parts of yourself that you may have had to hide, protect, or carry alone.
With nine years of experience in the mental health and social work field, Bita brings a grounded and emotionally attuned presence to her work. She believes healing often begins in relationships where safety feels palpable, allowing you to begin the path toward meeting yourself with loving curiosity instead of harsh judgment.
In her work, Bita takes time to get to know you, understand your story, and create a therapeutic space together that honours your pace, needs, and inner rhythm. Therapy becomes a place to listen more closely to what your mind, body, emotions, and pain may be communicating, and to begin responding to yourself with tender curiosity and care.
Bita’s approach integrates Psychodynamic Therapy, Emotion-Focused Therapy, and Somatic Therapy. This means she works not only with thoughts and emotions, but also with how experiences may be held in the body and nervous system. She supports you in noticing protective patterns, processing painful emotions, listening to the wisdom of the body, and building a greater sense of safety, connection, and trust within yourself.
At the heart of Bita’s work is a desire to help you reconnect with the parts of yourself that have been hurt, hidden, silenced, or waiting to be met. She believes getting to know yourself is a human right. She hopes that therapy becomes a place where you learn to come home to yourself with tenderness, self-trust, and fierce authenticity.
Outside of the therapy room, Bita enjoys visiting coffee shops, picking fruit from neighbourhood trees, wandering the beautiful forests of BC, and spending time with people who make life feel honest, vibrant, and full.